Weekly Reads Worth Reading | 07.04 - 13.04

Intelligence explosion in 2027? + DoorDash x Klarna memes, monopolies buying innovation and book recommendations

Happy Monday!

Not much to say today, we hope you enjoy this week’s content - think there’s some quite fun links here! (but also some AI doom talk…)

Top Reads 🗞️

  • Predicting the impact of superhuman AI in the next 2-3 years [AI 2027] | Website + accompanying ACX post & podcast (it’s Scott Alexander’s first ever podcast appearance (!))

  • The DoorDash x Klarna Partnership, a Cultural Review (Memes) [Pirate Wires] | Reading time: 3 mins

  • Directory of the most epic tiny teams in tech [tinyteams] | Website

  • Pieces we would like to commission [Works in Progress] | Reading time: 9 mins

Get Smarter 🧠

  • A much-expected article by Ethan Mollick: When Language Models Learn to See and Create [One Useful Thing] | Reading time: 10 mins

  • YouTube TV, Wiz, and Why Monopolies Buy Innovation [Stratechery] | Reading time: 12 mins

  • How to have good taste [The Common Reader] | Reading time: 6 mins

Detours 🦦

  • Can you clear all the chickens? [368 Chickens] | Game

  • Cool book recommendations [A Library] | Website

  • AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught [Nature] | Reading time: 5 mins

  • Final Usonian home by Frank Lloyd Wright completed in Ohio [Dezeen] | Reading time: 3 mins

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